“YOU KNOW WHAT I’M TALKIN’ ABOUT???” VALIENT THORR’S VALIENT HIMSELF ON THE OCCUPY WALL STREET PROTESTS
“I couldn’t sleep at all last night.”
My thoughts kept racing back and forth about what is happening in our country right now just underneath our noses. SO CLOSE! It’s so close! It’s the same kind of close as when someone has stepped in dogshit and they walk into the room, and you kind of catch a whiff of it. Enough of a whiff that you walk off into a corner and check the bottom of your shoe to make sure it’s not you. THAT’s how close this happening is. Or THESE happenings are. The Occupy Wall Street movement has spread to so many different cities that it’s pretty hard to keep up with what’s happening. I couldn’t sleep because this is something I’ve been dreaming about for a number of years. This is the beginning — NOT of a revolution (because revolutions just REVOLVE around and end up in the same place) but an EVOLUTION in our thought processes (taking us to a higher state of thought).
This gigantic hivemind group has come together despite their differences. Despite the things that politicians would use against us to pull us apart. They always pit the American people against each other. Left or right. Liberal or Conservative. Black or white. Rich or poor. Gay or straight. None of that shit matters. That is the significance of the idea of the 99%. There has been an unbalance in this country for too long. The network or cable news wouldn’t let you in on this stuff. It’s not them who’s out there protesting. AND their paychecks come from those same people who’ve bought our government. It took so goddamn long for something like this to happen. And you know why? Of course you do. If you didn’t, you probably wouldn’t be wasting your time on the internet reading something that some rocknroll singer wrote. There is about 1% in this country that have the bread to buy those in charge, reaping the benefits and the rewards of all of your hard work. It’s the reason that most people give up voting. They think, “Well, these candidates are all bought. What does it matter? What good will my vote do when in the end if either way it goes we’re all fucked?”
